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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
"I am not very observant where pictures are concerned" Like... is that a satirical choice or what?
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Can we stop dismissively projecting pet peeve interpretations onto posts that aren't worthy of them? I didn't say "you are depressed". I said "have you considered that you might be...". When did that become di
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
This is partly a matter of confidence and psychology, I think. Lots of us have ideas that we simply never entertain because we are too good at quickly shooting them down when we spot small difficulties, before we've even let the idea o
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> Am I just hard-wired to be mediocre? Have you considered the possibility that you're actually clinically depressed? Working on the assumption you are male, I think a lot of guys don't realise that low-grade depression looks l
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Right -- I would include that in "transform" in my example above. I've seen too many forum developers spend far too much time after the fact dealing with their decision to "just use TinyMCE" ==> Oh hey, you'
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Ehhh!? I don't get this at all. You obviously do both. 1) you get your input data into the form that is meaningful in the database by validating, sanitising and transforming it. Because you know what form that data should be in, and
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Yeah... I have a similar problem I want to work on in the coming months that I think people traditionally often used to solve with the help of Fischertechnik and the like, so this might be helpful there.
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
I miss really small phones. My favourite two small iPhones were the small-by-contemporary-standards iPhone 5S and SE. My favourite phone ever, small or large, was the Sony Xperia Mini Pro (the second of the Xperia Mini devices, with the sli
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
It's not myself I am defending. That the developer has been paid low is a fact. The accusation is that they were paid low because they were exploitable due to their low self-esteem. This is projected onto this fact without evidence. Pe
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
I know what words mean, but you're imagining words that don't exist. > This is very mean and unfair because you're taking advantage of your friend’s feelings and hard work without giving them what they really deserve. The
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> The error is often not in the layoff. It's in over-hiring in the first place. And that changes the "how evil are these people?" equation rather drastically IMO. This is an underappreciated aspect of psychopathic corporat
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Actually it is me who should apologise; I'm in an awful mood today and on other days would not have been so pompous, I hope :-) And yes -- I think to some extent my determination to push myself not to accept guilt for things that aren&
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Yes, that's the line you quoted earlier. It's still not evidence of your accusation and it won't become that through repetition.
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
This is a nasty accusation made without evidence.
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Not sure I should answer a post with a "how exactly" in it, to be honest, because it's rude. But: I don't, but that negative emotion shouldn't necessarily be guilt. First off, we don't know the obligation can&#
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
My internal definition of guilt is screwed up because I have OCD. This is why I am so keen on defining guilt carefully. What I am describing above is just discomfort. Unless the parent poster deliberately sought to underpay the person, they
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
You can't change the reasons for which you need a new person, and you've materially benefited from the person working for low pay. But it's not guilt, it's your morality and ethics identifying a gain you made that you fe
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Only after the fact though. Affinity are saying they won't switch everyone to subscriptions, that perpetual licensing will always be an option, and they don't yet have a subscription model.
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
I would have thought that was obvious from my comment. I'm with Jeff on this one. LLMs are an obviously terrible solution for any problem that actually has a complex but invariant solution. Personally I prefer rigid, automated questi
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Indeed -- though reducing seems to have other benefits. Though as far as is practicable [0], one should not drink alcohol. No amount is safe or good enough for you to offset the other risks. [0] life is short and not all social offers of a
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> And it's not like customer service of the same service providers without this tech was appreciated by people before these chatbots. This is just "but humans also". I wish our industry's collective standards didn&#x2
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> My isp does not use "ai", but presents me with their decision tree Which, paradoxically, is something that would look a lot like classic AI, from the before-times.
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Now you just need a typeface with the distinctive alternate lower-case A :-)
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> it doesn't optimize the hard part This is universally true of Generative AI's impact on all art and craft. It's a Dunning-Kruger thing. It makes the stuff that a novice thinks is hard apparently easier, but does not eve
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Precise and to the point.
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
> He was addressing an important point that you cannot treat everyone that opposes taking down confederate monuments as white supremacists. But you could, correctly, characterise everyone taking part in that march as having white natio
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
I've built a fairly sophisticated web-based translation tool for an agency's client who demanded it. I built it to their spec, for their CMS. They didn't use it, because the scheme they wanted turned out to be too much bother
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Yes, mostly. That is, if a Photoshop plugin is well-behaved and doesn't make use of undocumented aspects, it's pretty much going to work. https://peterthenaturephotographer.com/process/affinity-phot... htt
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
They have actually committed not to switch to a subscription model. Why do you think this is them doing that? > Do we believe they'll build the infrastructure to support a SaaS, then turn it all off after this 6-month trial? It&#x
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by ecjhdnc2025 2y ago
Affinity has really sophisticated colour editing controls. For example you can apply adjustment layers and then use a blend curve (not just blend ranges) to moderate it. So if you want warmer shadows, it's as easy as using a colour tem

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